These Cartoons Perfectly Describe Every Family During Quarantine

Life in lockdown has been strange for families across America. Many people are looking for any humor they can find in these unprecedented times—including cartoonist and mom of two Adrienne Hedger.

The mom has been on lockdown with her husband, Jack, and two teenage daughters, Kate, 16, and Claire, 14 in San Clemente, California. She’s taken to making cartoons of the strange situations she’s been finding herself in at home with her family, and moms across the globe, regardless of their kids’ ages, can relate.

In one cartoon, she jokes about the never-ending cycle that involves accidentally touching your face and then immediately washing your hands, while in another, she details how handwashing can be fun—but only the first few times. Other hilarious cartoons? One showing how strange she and her husband find looking at gatherings of people who are less than six-feet apart; another details the newfound stresses of grocery shopping; a third showing how organizing wild cats into a pyramid is easier than figuring out this whole distance-learning and working from home thing.

According to Hedger, we’re all in the same boat, and it’s okay if quarantine looks different than our expectations. When lockdown began, she thought she might be able to keep her kids to their regular schedules. “I’m a rule follower, so I thought ‘This sounds great!’ “But Claire has been going to bed at 1 a.m. and waking up at 11. It’s not what people were advising, but she’s getting the work done and turning it in on time. You can have a quarantine experience that is different from what’s prescribed,” she told TODAY Parents, adding “At first, I was thinking, ‘Kate will discover her life passion! She will find her life career. I imagined her emerging with such clarity. But that’s not what’s going on. She’s binge-watching some TV show. There’s a lot of YouTube. There’s a lot of baking. And that’s OK.”

Lockdown may look very different from what we all imagined—but that’s okay! Give yourself grace because, at the end of the day, we’re all doing the best we can. When you find it’s all just getting to be too much, check out Hedger’s Instagram account—you’re bound to walk away with a smile on your face.

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